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High school
career

Gallery attended East Buchanan High School in Winthrop, Iowa
and starred in football, basketball, and track. In football, he
played tight end and linebacker positions and handled punting and
kickoff duties. He was an all-conference honorable mention
selection as a sophomore before being named first team
all-conference as a junior and senior. Gallery helped his high
school team to a three-year record of 24-8, including a 19-2 record
in district play. He was a Des Moines
Register Class 1A All-State first team selection as a
senior.

College
career

Gallery went to the University of Iowa where his older brother,
Nick, was an All-Big Ten punter. His younger brother, John, later
became a punter at Iowa. After red-shirting in 1999, Gallery had
three catches for 52 yards as a starting tight end as a freshman
before moving to the tackle position. He started six games at right
tackle as a freshman.

As a sophomore, Gallery started every game at left tackle and
made vast improvements throughout the year. He helped Iowa lead the
Big Ten conference in scoring in 2001 as
Iowa qualified for their first bowl game in four years. As a junior
in 2002, Gallery started all 13 games at left tackle and was a
first team All-Big Ten selection. He helped lead Iowa to their
first Big Ten title in 12 years and their first undefeated
conference season in eighty years. He also won the team's Hustle
Award.

In 2003, Gallery led Iowa to another ten win season and was
voted as Iowa's co-captain and co-MVP for the season. He was a
first team All-Big Ten selection for the second straight year and
named the Big Ten Conference Offensive Lineman of the Year.

Gallery received a BA in Education from the University of Iowa
and as part of his training taught at two local elementary schools,
Lincoln and Weber.

Professional
career

Regarded as "the best lineman to come out of college in
years",[2] Gallery
was selected with the second overall pick in the 2004 NFL Draft by
the Oakland
Raiders. With a perfect 9.0 Draft Prospect Rating, the highest
for any offensive lineman, he became the second offensive lineman
in University of Iowa history to be drafted in the first round.[3] In
2004, he started 15 games at right tackle and gave up 3 sacks. In
2005, he started all 16 games at right tackle and gave up 3.5
sacks. The Raiders moved him to left tackle at the beginning of the
2006 preseason. In the Raiders' first game of the 2006 regular
season, Gallery was part of an offensive line that gave up nine
sacks (at least 3 charged to him) to the San Diego
Chargers. He played 10 games during the season and gave up 10.5
sacks, placing him 4th in the league for most sacks given up,
despite missing 6 games. In 2007, Oakland coaches moved Gallery to
left guard.

Although Gallery has generally been considered a bust at the
left tackle position for which he was drafted and had limited
success at the right tackle position, he has resurrected his career
at the left guard spot.[4] He is
the only player selected in the top 8 picks of the 2004 Draft not
to have made it to a pro bowl.